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still unclear. Studying the timing of woman suffrage adoption at state level, we find that states in which women were scarce … (the West) enfranchised their women much earlier than states in which the sex ratio was more balanced (the rest of the … and may have made woman suffrage more attractive in the eyes of western legislators that sought to attract more women to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824710
Woman suffrage led to one of the greatest enfranchisements in history. Yet, women neither won the right to vote by … jurisdiction's transition to woman suffrage. Our results show that the general scarcity of women in the American West, or a high … sex ratio, was the single most important factor behind the region's lead in the enfranchisement of women in the US. High …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003971794
still unclear. Studying the timing of woman suffrage adoption at state level, we find that states in which women were scarce … (the West) enfranchised their women much earlier than states in which the sex ratio was more balanced (the rest of the … and may have made woman suffrage more attractive in the eyes of western legislators that sought to attract more women to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003815240
This Article explores the history of American women's long struggle for the vote; it does so to illuminate the efficacy … groups, we can better judge what the women of the last two centuries accomplished by focusing on the voting right as their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157106
Throughout most of history, women as a class have possessed relatively few formal rights. The women of ancient Sparta … were a striking exception. Although they could not vote, Spartan women reportedly owned 40 percent of Sparta's agricultural … marginal products of Spartan men's and Spartan women's labor. To exploit the potential gains from a reallocation of labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014062740
still unclear. Studying the timing of woman suffrage adoption at state level, we find that states in which women were scarce … (the West) enfranchised their women much earlier than states in which the sex ratio was more balanced (the rest of the … and may have made woman suffrage more attractive in the eyes of western legislators that sought to attract more women to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265798
Woman suffrage led to one of the greatest enfranchisements in history. Yet, women neither won the right to vote by … jurisdiction's transition to woman suffrage. Our results show that the general scarcity of women in the American West, or a high … sex ratio, was the single most important factor behind the region's lead in the enfranchisement of women in the US. High …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267265
still unclear. Studying the timing of woman suffrage adoption at state level, we find that states in which women were scarce … (the West) enfranchised their women much earlier than states in which the sex ratio was more balanced (the rest of the … and may have made woman suffrage more attractive in the eyes of western legislators that sought to attract more women to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265672
In recent decades, women's participation in the labor market has increased considerably in most countries and is … be occurring in the criminal world, though many more men than women still engage in criminal activity. Technological … progress and social norms have freed women from the home, increasing their participation in both the labor market and the crime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422603
This paper sets out to investigate the wellbeing of women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It undertakes … spatial and temporal comparisons of women's wellbeing using data from the Demographic and Health Survey and the Multiple … improvement and deterioration of women's welfare across the DRC over a three-year period (2007 - 10). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307923